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NO, It's NOT "Time for Mark Zuckerberg to Give Up Control of Facebook"

It’s time for the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world to become irrelevant, instead. Even if they are cooperatives

The paradoxes of journalism, and the best way to (not) DeleteFacebook

Italian newspaper Repubblica interviewed Evgeny Morozov about the Cambridge Analityca scandal, and the related #deletefacebook case. Both the printed and the online version of the interview illustrate the pervasiveness and dangers of Big Data and Big Tech in more than one way. This is the paper version:

WITHOUT perclouds you may not do anything else right

This is an answer to a question I just received about the percloud, my proposal for really usable alternatives to centralized social networks and services like Gmail and Facebook.

Please just REFUSE the Right to Repair the Wrong Things

A new lobbying group is fighting Right to Repair laws, in a way that proves that certain things should be AVOIDED at all costs, not repaired.

On the real impact of fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles

Fake news, echo chambers, filter bubbles: how much do they REALLY create or influence people’s opinions on politics, or anything else?

The science of genetics-based dating is dubious at best. If you are lucky

Wired reports that a new dating app sends users a swab kit in order to “match potential mates based on genetic and social compatibility”.